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St. Pete Housing Authority receives grant to upgrade homes
Low-income families finding refuge in the St. Petersburg Housing Authority’s 134 public housing units will soon see some home improvements, thanks to a $842,360 federal grant. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently awarded $3.17 billion in Public Housing Repair funding to 2,756 agencies nationwide. While...
Man shows up at Florida elementary school with stab wounds to pick up child and get help
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (WFTS) -- A man showed up at a St. Petersburg elementary school on Tuesday with stab wounds asking for help while picking up a child. Police said the stabbing stemmed from a road rage incident near the school, but not on campus. A 28-year-old man and suspect Jose Oneill began arguing while they were in their own cars next to each other on 54th Avenue North while stopped at a light at 19th Street North.
St. Petersburg mayor: City Council members’ concerns on Rays deal ‘valid’
St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch, the architect of a plan that would keep the Tampa Bay Rays in town and let the club develop the land around a new stadium, said this week that City Council members have raised valid, legitimate and important concerns about the deal’s terms. On...
Bags of ashes, toppled headstones part of complaints against St. Pete cemetery
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — 10 Tampa Bay is uncovering problems at a cemetery in south St. Petersburg. Many families are outraged over a lack of upkeep. We began looking into their claims but then got a call we weren’t expecting. Virginia Morand is buried at Royal Palm Cemetery...
Oops, is the skateboard on the Tampa Bay Rays logo designed wrong?
ST. PETERSBURG ― Uh, so, this is awkward. Yeah, those. Well, the skateboard in the logo might be incorrectly designed. Its front truck appears to be backwards. “It is lol,” said Josh Eckert, a former Tampa resident and current social media manager for the X Games. Skateboard bottoms...
Around Town: Clearwater news briefs
CLEARWATER — David Paloff, Humane Society of Pinellas CEO, recently earned his Certified Animal Welfare Administrator certification through the Association for Animal Welfare Advancement, an independent agency that promotes standards of practice in the animal welfare profession. The Certified Animal Welfare Administrator program distinguishes top-level executives and managers working...
Florida dissolves Clearwater city workers union for failing to meet deadline
The union representing nearly 900 city of Clearwater employees has been dissolved after it failed to meet the registration requirements of a controversial new state law. The law, which took effect July 1, says public sector unions must enroll at least 60% of eligible employees. Local governments may no longer deduct monthly dues from paychecks, forcing unions to reenroll existing members in a new payment system and recruit any additional workers needed to meet the threshold.
4 Pinellas schools to get new principals, more changes expected
Several Pinellas County schools are getting new leaders as the district continues to fill spots left vacant by retirements and reassignments. Andrew Akapnitis, assistant principal at Fairmount Park Elementary, will move into the principal’s office at the school. The post came open when LaKisha Lawson, the school’s leader since 2019, took a promotion to become the district’s chief transformation officer.
Graduation season is underway in Tampa Bay
Thursday’s celebrations at Tropicana Field were among the first of the high school graduation season in Tampa Bay. Commencement ceremonies were scheduled through the weekend and into Tuesday for Pinellas County’s 17 traditional high schools. Graduations for the district’s alternative and special-needs schools will take place later in May.
Pinellas grads take lessons from a high school life that began with COVID
Seminole High senior Emily Nichols has vivid memories of the school’s 2020 “drive-by” graduation. Nichols — then just finishing eighth grade — sat in the passenger seat beside her older sister, whose in-person commencement ceremony was waylaid by the COVID-19 pandemic that cropped up only weeks earlier.
The climate is changing. St. Petersburg has a plan.
St. Petersburg is taking bold action to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate. The climate science is clear and requires us to act with a sense of urgency and purpose. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has confirmed 2023 was the hottest year on record, and 2024 is already on track to break that record.
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